Sebastian Geyer

Baritone

Sebastian Geyer's roles during the 2014/15 season as a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt, which he joined in 2010/11, are Schaunard in La Bohème, Creonte in a new production of Cesti's LʼOrontea, the Gamekeeper / Hunter in Rusalka, 3rd Tempter / Knight in Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral and roles in the first ever performances in Frankfurt of Drei Einakter/Three One Act Opera by Bohuslav Martinů. Roles here in recent seasons have included Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), which the company went on tour with to the 2013 Edinburgh International Festival, the title roles in Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Telemann's Orpheus, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Sebastian (The Tempest), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Larkens (La fanciulla del West), Mozart's Count Almaviva, Oronte (Charpentier's Médée) and Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus. Earlier on in his career Sebastian Geyer was under contract to the Stadttheater in Gießen and Theater Heidelberg. He was nominated for »Singer of the Year« by Opernwelt magazine in 2006 for his interpretation of Don Giovanni. He studied with Rudolf Piernay and Claudia Eder and has won many prizes, including the 2002 and 2003 International Singing Competition at the Kammeroper Schloss in Rheinsberg. Other guest engagements have taken him to places including the Staatstheater in Stuttgart, the Staatstheater in Wiesbaden and the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. He has also enjoyed great success with the title roles in Vivaldi's Montezuma and Tito Manlio in the rococo theatre in Schwetzingen Castle.